Thinlet - TextArea

TextArea

TextArea is a multi-line area that displays plain text, optionally wrapped at word boundaries (whitespace), and internally handles scrolling.

<textarea text="TextArea" wrap="true" columns="40" rows="2" />

Properties
Name	Type	Default	Description
text	string	''	The text contained in this textarea.
columns	integer	0	The number of visible letters in a column.
rows	integer	0	The number of visible rows for this textarea.
editable	boolean	true	The specified boolean to indicate whether or not this textarea should be editable. A non-editable area is focusable, and selectable.
wrap	boolean	false	If set to true the lines will be wrapped at word boundaries (whitespace) if they are too long to fit within the allocated width.
border	boolean	true	If set to false, no border will be drawn around the textarea, and its background will be set to the default background color, to visually "blend" with its container. You can still override this by setting a custom background color.
start	integer	0	Start index of the selection.
end	integer	0	End index of the selection, same as the caret position.
name, enabled, visible, tooltip, property, width, height, colspan, rowspan, weightx, weighty, halign, and valign parameters are similar to component

Listeners
Name	Description
action	Gives notification (invokes the given method) that there was an insert into the text or a portion of the text has been removed.
insert	Gives notification that there was an insert into the text (and possibly a portion has been removed too).
remove	Gives notification that a portion of the text has been removed.
caret	To track whenever the caret position has been changed.

Keyboard-actions
Operation	Action
Home	Moves to beginning of line
End	Moves to end of row or line
Ctrl-Home	Moves to beginning of data
Ctrl-End	Moves to end of data
Up arrow	Moves insertion point up one line
Down arrow	Moves insertion point down one line
Page Up	Moves up one view
Page Down	Moves down one view
Right arrow	Moves insertion point one character to the right
Left arrow	Moves insertion point one character to the left
Ctrl-right arrow	Moves insertion point to beginning of next word
Ctrl-left arrow	Moves insertion point to beginning of previous word
+Shift	Extends selection
Enter, Return	Inserts line-break
Backspace	Deletes the previous character
Delete	Removes the following character
Ctrl-A, Ctrl-Slash	Selects all
Ctrl-Backslash	Deselects all
Ctrl-X	Cuts selected text into the clipboard
Ctrl-C	Copies selected text into the clipboard
Ctrl-V	Pastes the clipboard content
Tab, Shift-Tab	Navigate forward, backward